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Chief Justice Of Belize
The chief justice of Belize is the head of the Supreme Court of Belize. Under Chapter 7 of the Constitution of Belize, the chief justice is appointed by the Governor-General on the advice of the prime minister. Since the retirement of Kenneth Benjamin in March 2020, Michelle Arana was the acting chief justice of Belize. Louise Blenman was appointed to fill the vacancy in September 2022. List of chief justices The full list as published by the attorney general of Belize: # Robert Temple Esq., 1843–1861 British Honduras (1862-1973) # Richard J. Connor, 1862 # William Alexander Parker, 1875–1881 #Sir Henry Rawlins Pipon Schooles, 1881 (later Administrator of Grenada, 1887 and Attorney General of Jamaica, 1896) # William Anthony Musgrave Sheriff, 1883–1886 #Sir William Meigh Goodman, 1886–1889 #Sir William John Anderson, 1890–1900 (afterwards Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago The chief justice of Trinidad and Tobago is the highest judge of the Republic of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Blenman
Louise Esther Blenman is a former Appellate Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and the current Chief Justice of Belize. She is the first woman to ever be appointed to the post. On 22 November 2022, she was sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the High Court and the Court of Appeal after the successful passage of the Senior Courts Act. Early life She is Guyanese by birth and Saint Lucian by naturalisation. She obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree (Upper Second Honours) from the University of the West Indies in 1986, a Legal Education Certificate from the Hugh Wooding Law School in 1988, and a Master of Laws from the University of London with Merit. Her legal career began in Guyana in 1988 where she served in various capacities including as Acting Deputy Solicitor General in the Attorney General's Chambers. In 1990, while employed at the Attorney General's Chambers she was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship and completed the Commonwealth Lawyers' Course at the Institu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attorney General Of Jamaica
Attorney General of Jamaica is the chief law officer in Jamaica. Section 79(1) of the Constitution of Jamaica states that "there shall be an Attorney General who shall be the principal legal adviser to the Government of Jamaica" and pursuant to the Crown Proceedings Act all civil proceedings by or against the Government are instituted in the name of the Attorney General. List of attorneys general of Jamaica :''Main Source'': 1655 English/British Colony *Edmund Ducke 1671 *John Wright 1685 *Sir Richard Dereham 1688 *Simon Musgrave 1686–1691 * William Brodrick (politician), brother of Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton, Privy Council of Ireland, PC (Ire) (c. 1656 – 29 August 1728) was a leading Irish lawyer and Whigs (British political party), Whig politician who sat in the Parliament of Ireland between 1692 and 1715 and ..., ( Lord Chancellor of Ireland) 1693 *Thomas Barrow 1698 *Edward Haskins 1703 *Robert Hotchkyn 1707 *William B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carleton George Langley
Sir Carleton George Langley (21 May 1885 – 11 November 1963) was a British lawyer and colonial judge. He was the Chief Justice of British Honduras from 1940 to 1948. Biography The elder son of George Langley, of Shepton Mallet, Somerset, Carleton Langley was educated at the City of London School. He was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1913. During and after the First World War, he served in Malta, France, and Ireland from 1914 to 1921, reaching the rank of Captain in the 2nd Battalion, The London Regiment. Returning to the Bar in 1921, he entered private practice, first in Lincoln's Inn, then in the Bahamas until 1931, when he was appointed Attorney-General of the Leeward Islands, becoming a local King's Counsel in 1935. He was concurrently Acting Colonial Secretary from 1934 to 1936, and Administrator of Antigua from 1935 to 1936. In 1937, he was appointed second puisne judge in British Guiana. He was appointed Chief Justice of British Honduras in 1940, serving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Kirwan Agar
Sir Arthur Kirwan Agar (31 August 1877 – July 1942) was a British barrister and colonial judge. He was Chief Justice of British Honduras from 1936 to 1940. Biography Agar was the son of solicitor Edward Larpent Agar, of Milford House, Milford-on-Sea and the grandson of William Agar, after whose father Agar Town was named. His siblings included the landscape designer Madeline Agar and the Anglo-Australian zoologist Wilfred Eade Agar. Agar was educated at Brighton College. During the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Service Corps, reaching the rank of captain. After being called to the English Bar by Gray's Inn, Agar entered the Colonial Legal Service in 1920. He was appointed Chief Justice of British Honduras in 1936, serving until 1940. Knighted in 1939, Agar died in Springfield, Dominica Dominica, officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean. It is part of the Windward Islands chain in the Lesser Antilles archipelago in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Wilton Wood Greenidge
Charles Wilton Wood Greenidge was the vice president of the Anti-Slavery Society in 1968. He was secretary of the society from 1941 to 1956 and director from 1957 to 1958. Early life Greenidge was born on 10 January 1889 in the parish of St James Barbados. He was the youngest son of Charles Joseph Greenidge, a member of the Colonial Parliament of Barbados the West Indies by his second wife, Edith Marion Wood. He was a distant cousin of Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge. He was educated at Harrison College, Barbados, and then Downing College, Cambridge, where he read law. Career He was appointed a Magistrate in St Kitts, Leeward Islands, in 1919 and Magistrate in Barbados in 1923. He rose to the office of Court of Appeal Judge in 1925. He then transferred to Port of Spain, Trinidad as a Magistrate in 1927. Later, he acted as Solicitor General and then-Attorney General as well as being a member of the Legislative Council. A further posting as Chief Justice of British Honduras foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Kortright McDonnell Sisnett
Sir Herbert Kortright McDonnell Sisnett, FRPSL (1862 – 3 June 1937) was a British lawyer and colonial judge. The son of G. W. Sisnett, Rector of St George's, Barbados, Sisnett was educated in Barbados at The Lodge School and Harrison College, before being called to the English bar by the Inner Temple in 1896. He was Registrar General and District Commissioner, Belize, British Honduras, in 1907–12; he also acted at Attorney General and Chief Justice of British Honduras on several occasions during the period. In 1913–21, he was Stipendiary Magistrate in British Guiana, and acted as Attorney General of British Guiana in 1920–21. He was senior Puisne Judge in Jamaica during 1921–22, before being appointed Chief Justice of British Honduras in 1922. He was sole arbitrator in the Shufeldt claim between the United States and Guatemala in 1930. He was knighted in 1927 and retired in 1931. A philatelist, Sisnett was a Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society London The Royal P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Blair Roden
Sir Robert Blair Roden (21 April 1860 – 5 February 1939) was a British colonial judge. He was Chief Justice of St Vincent from 1912 to 1915 and Chief Justice of British Honduras from 1915 to 1921. Biography Roden was born in Antigua, the son of J. James Roden, a sugar planter. He was educated at the Ewart Institute in Newton Stewart, Scotland. Roden joined the Colonial Service in 1880. He was Magistrate of Nevis from 1890, Private Secretary to successive governors of the Leeward Islands in 1883, 1890, 1895, and 1896, He was a member of the St Kitt’s and Nevis Legislative Council from 1891, of the Federal Legislative Council of the Leeward Islands from 1898. In 1903, he was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn and was appointed Police Magistrate of Bridgetown, Barbados the same year. He acted on several occasions as Judge of the Bridgetown Petty Debt Court and of the Barbados Assistant Court of Appeal. He was appointed Chief Justice of St Vincent, 1912, administered the Govern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Shaw (judge)
Sir Walter Sidney Shaw (15 April 1863 – 24 April 1937) was an English barrister and judge. He served as a judge in a number of British colonies, his last judicial appointment being as Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements. He was also the chairman of the Shaw Commission which investigated the 1929 Palestine riots. Early life Born in 1863, Shaw was the second son of George Shaw, a barrister, of St George's Square, Pimlico. He was educated at Brighton College, leaving the school in 1879, and Trinity College, Cambridge,''Kingston Gleaner'', 26 May 1937. which was his father’s old college, where he was admitted in 1882."SHAW, WALTER SIDNEY" in John Venn, John Archibald Venn, eds., ''Alumni Cantabrigienses'', Vol. 2, Part V (Cambridge University Press, 1953)p. 482 "SHAW, WALTER SIDNEY. Adm. pens. at TRINITY, June 10, 1882. nds. of George (1843), of 71, St George's Square, London" He was called to the Bar from the Middle Temple in 1888.''The Straits Times'' (Singapore), 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Justice Of The Leeward Islands
The chief justice of the Leeward Islands headed the Supreme Court of the Leeward Islands. The British Leeward Islands was a British colony existing between 1833 and 1960, and consisted of Antigua, Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla and Dominica (to 1940). Prior to 1871, when the Supreme Court was established, the individual islands had their own courts. In 1939 the Windward and Leeward Islands Supreme Court and the Windward and Leeward Islands Court of Appeal were established, which was replaced in 1967 by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court which provides both functions. List of chief justices Antigua * 1706– Samuel Watkins * ?–1716 John Gamble * 1716–c.1742 Samuel Watkins * ?–1750 William Lavington * 1750– William Blizard * ?–1759 Richard Wilson * 1759–1762 Ralph Payne * c.1776 Thomas Jarvis * c.1792–1814 Rowland Burton * 1814–1822 James Athill * 1823–c.1833 Paul Daxon Horsford * c.1844–1847 Richard Weston Nant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederic Mackenzie Maxwell
Sir Frederic Mackenzie Maxwell, KC (11 January 1860 – 9 May 1931) was a British barrister and colonial judge who served as Chief Justice of British Honduras and of the Leeward Islands. Early life and education Maxwell was born in the Turks and Caicos Islands, at the time a part of the Bahamas. The son of the Rev. Joseph Maxwell, Vicar of Pennington, Lancashire and Rector of St. Matthew's Anglican Church, Nassau, Bahamas, Maxwell was privately educated, before attending Nassau Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took first-class honours in Jurisprudence in 1885. Legal career Admission He was called to the English bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1884, where he held a first-class studentship in jurisprudence and Roman civil law and a first-class scholarship in equity, and joined the Northern Circuit. British Honduras (present-day Belize) He became Acting Attorney-General of British Honduras in 1890 and Attorney-General in 1896. From 1907 to 1912, he was Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Lewis (jurist)
Sir Walter Llewellyn Lewis (13 November 1849 – 26 September 1930) was an advocate, magistrate of Trinidad and Chief Justice of British Honduras. Biography Lewis was born in Banbury, but his mother and father settled in County Galway in early 1852. Educated at Queens College Galway, he received a B.A. in 1869 and took his M.A. in 1871. He received a gold medal and first class honours in his degree. Lewis entered as a student of the Middle Temple in 1872; he acquired his knowledge of the law in the chambers of Robert Wallace, Herbert Reed and Robert McCall. He frequently "devilled" for McCall who was also a graduate of QCG. He married Jane Mary Dealy in 1887. In his leisure time Lewis enjoyed voyaging to various parts of the world—he was an expert navigator. In 1876 he began to practice on the Northern Circuit but this was not to his liking and he switched to the South Wales and Chester Circuit. Suffering from poor health in 1883 and 1884 he accepted an appointment from Lord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Justice Of Trinidad And Tobago
The chief justice of Trinidad and Tobago is the highest judge of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and presides over the Supreme Court of Judicature of Trinidad and Tobago. He is appointed by a common decision of the President, the prime minister and the leader of the opposition. History Tobago was claimed for England already by King James I in 1608, however in the following time saw varying rulers. In 1794, a planter was elected the first chief justice.Laurence (1995), p. 55 The island was eventually ceded to the United Kingdom in 1814 at the Treaty of Paris and from 1833 it was assigned to the colony of the British Windward Islands. In 1797, Trinidad, who had been previously controlled by the Spanish Crown, was captured by a fleet commanded by Sir Ralph Abercromby and thus came under THE British government. The post of a chief justice was established in March of the same year.Millett (1985), p. 47 Both islands, Trinidad and Tobago were incorporated into a single colony in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |